ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 7
23/2 – 13/3
Find out what assessments are happening in the current assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources. Check the full assessment schedule to see what’s coming up later in the year.
Year 7
Essay writing holistic assessment - you will be assessed on all four Year 7 essay writing skills
Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Antagonist, Biography, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension
Year 8
Creating a character and Describing a setting in vivid detail Combined Skill Check
- You will be assessed on both of these skills in the same task. Revise using this guide to creating character and this guide to describing settings
Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Biography, Pathetic fallacy, Direct address, Unreliable narrator, Dramatic irony, Form, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension
Year 9
Full GCSE-style essay on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
- Revise using your copy of the story and notes from class; you can also revise the skills you’re least confident with using our essay writing guides
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Alliteration, Assonance, Listing, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Rule of three, Sibilance, Simile
Year 10
Linking analysis to big ideas and Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective Combined Skill Check
- You will be assessed on both of these skills in the same task. Revise using this guide to big ideas and this guide to context
Creating a character and Describing a setting in vivid detail Combined Skill Check
- You will be assessed on both of these skills in the same task. Revise using this guide to creating characters and this guide to describing settings
Rhetorical devices Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Alliteration, Assonance, Listing, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Rule of three, Sibilance, Simile